Summary: Joshua Miller, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Call-Bullshit-Live-Someone-Elses-ebook/dp/B07C8HWBWZ/&tag=authorhour-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Call Bullshit</a>, wants you to be happy. Not just getting by, and not being successful by society’s standards, but can’t wait to wake up every single day happy. If you’re shaking your head, convinced that this is impossible for you, Joshua calls bullshit. The life that you want is attainable, and Joshua believes that you simply need to reconnect with the person you really are.<br> In this episode, Joshua takes some of the overly complicated advice that’s presented by the self-help industry and distills it down to its basic principles and reveals how you can use those to help you become your authentic self.<br> If you’re suspecting that your life maybe doesn’t have to suck, this episode is for you.<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Call-Bullshit-Live-Someone-Elses-ebook/dp/B07C8HWBWZ/&tag=authorhour-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Get Joshua’s new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Call-Bullshit-Live-Someone-Elses-ebook/dp/B07C8HWBWZ/&tag=authorhour-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I Call Bullshit</a> on Amazon.<br> Find out more at <a href="http://joshhmiller.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">JoshHMiller.com</a>.<br> <br> <br> Joshua Miller: I grew up in New York City, in a time where I was surrounded by uber-wealthy people and raised middle class, you know? This is what I was surrounded by and what I knew. It was always kind of this false narrative when you’re surrounded by this. It’s kind of misleading as to where you want to go in your life.<br> Growing up, I had two loving parents who are artists and an older brother. I went off to this high school that I never fit in. I went to this private high school that I was the outlier. I wasn’t the smartest kid, I was a C plus, B minus student, but everyone else was an A plus student.<br> I was the creative art guy, and everyone else was the mathlete or whatever you want to call it. And so, I, for the most part in my high school life, I just never felt like I fit in. I went off to college and struggled to get my communications design and advertising degree because that’s what I was most passionate about, but I unfortunately just was not prepared for it.<br> <br> The call that changed everything for me came my senior year.<br> <br> Working two jobs and to get my act together, I got a call from my mother and my father. My brother was on the phone that my dad was sick, and they weren’t really being truthful with it, about the situation. He had cancer. It was really bad. I knew it was bad, but I also knew they weren’t telling me the truth.<br> It hit home when Thanksgiving break came, and they were like, “We’d prefer you not come home,” which was unheard of. I went to a friend’s house, and obviously, I was concerned and when Christmas break came by, they thought, you know what? You probably shouldn’t come home as well, which tore them apart.<br> <br> Stumbling Into a New Life<br> Joshua Miller: My father was literally falling apart in pieces with chemotherapy and stuff.<br> Here is a man who, this is my idol, my father, my dad, a leader, a friend. Someone I looked up to. And he was withering away and fighting for his life.<br> <br> I was fighting to just graduate, and it was a dark time, a tough time for me.<br> <br> I had to dig deep to focus and graduate college. I was blessed and feel grateful that my father was miraculously able to turn around and, through chemo and stuff, show up for my graduation. He did not look like the man that I knew when I went off to my senior year in college, but there he was. He stood by me in graduation. It was one of my most proud moments. I mean, in my life.<br> Shortly thereafter, he passed way.<br> It changed everything for me.
